Every year, GW drops a series of special boxed sets (see "'Warhammer 40,000 Battleforce' Boxes") to inspire players to assemble new Warhammer 40,000 armies in the new year. This time around, GW is offering six boxed sets featuring some of the games most fabled armies. The new boxed sets are as follows:

• Shieldbreaker Strike Force (Space Marines): This box features a Captain and his entourage of Bladeguard Veterans leading an infantry force of 10 Intercessors, 10 Assault Intercessors, five Heavy Intercessors, and a Storm Speeder Hailstrike vehicle.
• Purgatos Mission (Adepta Sororitas): The set comes with a Sister Dogmata commanding five Celestian Sacrosancts, 10 Battle Sisters, an Immolator armed transport, and a mighty Exorcist tank. 
• Omnissiah’s Talon (Adeptus Mechanicus): This Battleforce comes with 5 Pteraxii, 5 stealthy Ruststalkers, 3 Serberys Raiders, Ironstrider Ballistarii’s powerful cognis lascannons,  10 Skitarii Rangers, and their Tech-priest Manipulus commander.
• Plaguefester Warband (Death Guard): It features a Champion and Icon Bearer leading 7 Plague Marines, 3 Deathshroud Terminators, 3 Myphitic Blight-haulers, and a Plagueburst Crawler.
• Worldscour Legion (Necrons): The Necron force is led by a Psychomancer cryptek with 10 Necron Warriors and 3 Scarab Swarms behind him. It also comes with a Lokhust Heavy Destroyer, 3 Ophydian Destroyers, 5 Flayed Ones, and 2 huge Canoptek Doomstalkers.
• Killdakka Warband (Orks): This Ork set comes with 5 Nobz, 20 Boyz, 10 Gretchin, Da Boss aboard his Deffkilla Wartrike, a Big Mek with Shokk Attack Gun, and a Dakkajet.

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